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,00PER ANNUM,
Forest Republican.
I
NowYorkCity has more Southerner,
than any city in the South.
It is estimated that there are in
London fully threo million people
whonever mter a placo of worship.
: The Supreme Court has decided that
a telegraph company ia not liablo for
errors in the transmission of a cipher
dispatch.
The Now York Time, notes the fact
that "the only part of tho oountry
which soeme disposed at prosont to in
cite or encourago immigration is the
South. "
The island kingdom of Tatota, near
New Zealand, with all the rights,
privileges, prerogatives and appurten
ances of royalty including a throne
and crqwn is for sale to the highest
bid Joy.
1 7- '
. The English are pushing north
Trom Yambesi and west and south
through and beyond Mashonaland ; in
the latter direction lio the elevated
pastures or platoaus of this part of
Africa blessed with a temperate cli
mate and fcrtilo soil, and destined ere
long to be the seat of a great em
pire. C. F. Huntington says wheat in
California is ceasing to be a factor of
muoh importance in the wealth of the
State. 'Although the Stato has pro
duced 00,000,000 bushels a year, he
boliovos that in a fow years it will not
produce 10,000,000 bushels. Other
crops are taking tho place of wheat
with much more profit.
The installation of tho big electric
' searchlight at Sandy llook, N. J.,
marks the boginning of an important
change in the lighting of tho Atlnntio
ooast. When the giant at Fire Island
is completed, and proposed changes
are made in the illumination of the
harbor channels, big ocean liners
will have no excuse for trying to out
across Long Island in their efforts to
reach Now York in a hurry.
An English exhibitor at the World's
Pair has returned the medal and
diploma awarded on tho ground that
they are without valuo, ststos tho
Courier-Journal. All exhibitors, ho
says, received them, and amateurs
whose exhibits wore of a trifling
charaoter received awards equal in
value and merit to those- made to the
largest and most important exhibitors.
New York Judge, remarks : "The
chair for murderers has greatly simpli
fied the 1-jgal taking of human life.
The curiosity attending the business
lias died out, and within a few weeks
aeveral criminals have been killed
with the slightest attention from the
newspapers, a paragraph or two by
telegraph being all the notice they got.
The killing is done expeditiously and
thoroughly, and the rope for such
purposes has come to be looked upon
as barbarism. Wo mention this be
cause many wise newspapers deolared
when the chair' was first used that it
must be abolished. "
Jennie Creek, ten years old, and liv
ing at Muckford, Indiana, has reason
to be very proud and her friends have
good cause to be proud of her, aud with
out doubt are so. Whi'e Jennie was
walking along the railroad track near
ber home last summer, sbo discovered
that a trestle across a deep ravine was
on fire, and she knew that a train bear
ing aload of passengers for the World's
Fair would soon be aloug. With won
derful presence of mind the child ran
to meet tho train, and flagging it with
her apron brought it to a stop. There
were many French passengers on
board, and on their return home they
reported to their Government tho con
duct of the child. And so Jennie
Creek has just received as a reward for
her courage and proseuce of mind the
medal of the Legion of Honor.
It is hard, admits the New York In
. dependent, for an old-fashioned far
mer on an isolated farm to bring himself
to behove in the widespread preva
lence of tuberoulosis among cattle, and
etill harder for him to realize that fa
tal germs, that will eventually carry
off-tender infants, can hide themselves
in the iuuocent looking milk. But not
so very long ago a dairy, not far from
New York City, was suspected of the
infection. Specimens of milk from
twelve out of twenty-five cows were
found to contain tubercle bacilli, and
portions of this milk were injected
with thorough aseptio proportions
into a healthy Guinea pig. The ani
mal gradually emaciated, and in three
weeks died. The autopsy showed
cheesy lubaroles at the centers of the
mesenteric and inguinal glanihi, and
the liver and spleen were teeming with
miliary tubercles. The dairy from
which that milk came was promptly
condemned by the Health Board.
SOME HEARTS,
Through days a-weary, and scones no
dreary,
Some hearts in tho shadow mart stay,
Whtlothe aching eyes scan glodmy Iklo
For a light In the far away.
Through the dnrkness doep, droad agonies
greop,
And steol the reluctant perfume
Of the flowers rare, that fate ,ooraod to
dare,
On the grlef-strlcken soil to bloom.
Through the dismal years, ot weeping and
fenrs,
8ome hearts, with tholr burden ot woo,
On the grim highway, where no sunbeams
piny,
Through tho blackness of night must go.
Some hearts must woep. while other hearts
sleep,
No'er dreaming of pain or sorrow ; i
Bom, hearts are sighing, some hearts are
crying
O'er visions of dread to-morrow,
Lome hearts must kneel aud the chast'nlng
feel,
As hopes that wero framed In the past
Fall Into decay, and, swift, pass sway,
Too frail, through suffering, to last.
Some hearts are aching, and silently break
ing, While the lives of others are crowned
With rarest delight, that never takes flight
Whore despair's dark face never frowned.
Edward N. Wood, In Atlanta ConVltutlon.
THE STOUT PASSENGER.
N the city of, Brus
sels a great deal of
very pretty lace is
exposed for sale.
English women ad
mire this lace and
buy it. If they go
straight from Bel
gium to Ku gland
they can take it
home without hav
ing to pay any
duty, but if they
pass through
France they have to pay on all their
new Brussels lace at the French Cus
tom House. And many English wo
men pass through 1 ranee on their
way from Belgium to England, be
causo they prefer tho short passage
from Calais to Dover to the longer
ono from Ostend.
The Misses Wylie were charming,
middlo-aged ladies, fond of travel,
fond of dress, fond of lace and very
bad sailors. They had been excur-
sioning in Germany, had come down
the Kruno and had spent a week in
Brussels. More attractire than the
field of Waterloo and more fascinating
than the Musee Wicrtz was the Gal
erio St. Hubert. Miss Melissa Wylie
could not resist the white Brussels
lace ; Miss Annora Wylie could not
resist the black. Each of the ladies
bought ; led on. by the tempter, in
the shape of a seductive Bhop woman,
the Misses Wylie bought lace fichus,
laoe collarettes, lace by tho meter.
Day by day they added to their stock.
At length it was necessary to make
for England and to pass through that
dreadful France, with its protective
duties. Then they realized their po
sition. How about the lace?
"We cannot conscientiously say,"
remarked Miss Melissa, "that we have
'rien a declarer' (nothing to declare),
because this lace is dutiable."
"And we dare not risk paoking it,"
returned Miss Annora, "because they
might take it into thoir heads to ex
amine our box a"
"How can we got it through?"
mused the elder sister.
"We must get it through," de
clared the younger sister.
Presently Annora exclaimed: "I
have it 1 We will wear it 1 No duty
is paid on what one is wearing." '
"Yes, yes," said Melissa, "but how
can we wear it? The whito will get
soiled and the black torn in traveling.
Besides, if it looks unnatural, as it
would on our dresses and mantles, the
officials will be sure to notioe it."
"It would not look unnatural on
our bonnets," Baid Annora.
They set to work to decorate their
bonnets with the lace. They mingled
white and black, fichu and flounce, in
the most skilful manner, and though
the bonnets looked somewhat over
done, yet they carried the lace, and it
was probable that the mule eyes of the
Custom House officials would not
notice anything abnormal.
The Misses Wylie rejoiced in their
cleverness. They sat in the train on
their way to France with dear con
sciences and light hearts. They had
rien a declarer nothing dutiable. In
the compartment with them was only
one other passenger, a stout man, of
good-humored aspect, evidently from
his extreme flabby stoutness and his
extreme good humor, a middle-class
German. Now, Germans who under
stand English are very sociublo with
their English- fellow-travelers. As
this German did not address the
Misses Wylie, they felt sure that ho
did not understand English, and they
talked freely to each other.
"I suppose," said Melissa, "that my
bonnet looks all right? It does not
strike the eyes as beiug too much
trimmed, eh, Annora?"
"Well, said Annora, laughing, "it
is too muoh trimmed for good taste,
but then on this occasion you have
bad taste. What about mine?"
"Oh, quite artistic, 'a study iu black
ana white, as the artists sav.
The ladies laughed together, full of
glee at their coming triumph over the
Custom House officers. The German
wore the fatuous grin affected by peo
pie who listen to a language which
tney do not understand.
At last the train slowed into Blau
daiu station, the frontier. Out jumped
the Misses wylie with their baud bag
gage. They calmly awaited the ap
proach os the officers. Out lumbered
the German with his fatuous smile.
He sauntered up to one of the chiefs
of the douane.
"Bien a declarer," said both ladiefc
"Ean do cologndi dcntelles, tabad.
spirituoux" (cologud water; lace, tobacco-,
spirits), tho officer Tan oft.
"luon, rion, snnl the Misses Wylie.
The man said nothing more, and the
ladies, expecting tho cry of "Et vol
ture, s'il vons plait 1" felt extremely
happy.
But at that moment the official to
whom the German had been speak
ing came up to them and said, in Very
fair English ! "The ladies are fond of
lace?"
Thoir hearts sank within therm
"Bntheri" they doncoded.
'And to carry it on the bonnet is
a convenient manner of avoiding the
duty."
Thoy were undone I
"But we are wearing it," screeched
Annora. Melissa panted.
' 'Mesdames,I admire your ingenuity,
but such an amount of new lace can
not be passed even on your bonnets.
Two, threo, five meters," he went on,
measuring the unlucky lace with his
eye, "llchu, flounce, etc So many
francs or I coufiscato it.'.'
"En voiturc, s'il vous plait!" was
heard.
The sum demanded by tho officer
added to what they had paid in pur
chase would have made the lace' the
dearest that evor was bought. They
tore off their bonnets, pulled out in
numerable pins, sot free the fichus,
flounces, etc., put them into the of
ficer's hands and ran to their scats.
Out of breath and out of pooket, they
were most unhappy. Successful cheat
ing is ono thing, but unsuccessful
cheating is another, and causes sharp
pangs of conscience.
"Too bad 1" cried Melissa as the
train moved on. "We were entitled
to what wo wore."
"It was that German," said Annora.
"He understood English. He heard
what we said. He told the official.
Oh, a man may grin and grin and be
a villain !"
They groaned over thoir misfor
tune. The first time the train stopped
the villain entered their compart
ments still grinning. They glared at
him, but he still grinned. They took
refuge in silonce. He began to speak :
"Ladies," he said in Londonese
English, "I was very sorry to have to
incur your displeasure, but I felt that
it was my duty to report you at the
douane. You had innocently told me
all aoont the lace on your bonnets,
and for the credit of our country, for
the sake of English honesty, I was
constrained to point out your bonnets
to that official. Can you forgive me?"
"No," said Annora.
But Melissa thoughtthat, notwith
standing his wicked cruelty, there was
something very pleasant jn his smile.
"1 entreat your forgiveness, ladies;
more, I humbly ask a favor. "
".Sir?" exclaimed Annora.
"Miss Wylio, Miss Annora Wylie"
the presuming wretch had seen their
names on their luggage, even their
Christian names "you will confer a
great favor on me if you will toll me
yonr address."
Annora reddened J Melissa blushed.
Perhaps he was ashamed of the - cruel
part he had played and was about to
offer an apology ; perhaps their brave
and gentle endurance of misfortune
had touched him ; perhaps their charms
had so won upon him that he wished
to see more of them, with a view to
their suppositious broke off rapidly.
Annora looked at Melissa, and Mel
issa looked at Annora. Then the elder
sister,spoke. VWe live at 113 Au
gelina gardens, Edwin Square, South
Kensington, 8. W."
The stranger made a note of the ad
dress. Melissa was ou the point of ask
ing his name when he said abruptly.
"1'ou shall hear from me." Then he
discoursed on the country through
which they were passing, after which
he buried himself in a Figaro aud
talked no more. At tho next st.oppage
ho said a brusque "Good morning,
ladies," aud left the compartment, and
they Baw no more of him.
There was a considerable flutter in
the breast of Melissa, who was of a ro
mantic turn of mind, and who could
only imagine one reason why this
stranger should want her address. Sho
still believed that he was a German
who spoke English remarkably well,
aud (he had seen that he was not a
gentleman ; she thereforo made up her
mind to refuse tho offer of marriage
which . no doubt ho would shortly
make.
Arrived in Angelina gardens, tho
Misses Wylie were occupied in arrang
ing the household, aud a couple of
busy days were spent by them. On
the third day after their home-coming
they reoeived by the sajhe post a par
cel and a letter. Auuora opened the
carefully tied and sealed parcel, while
Melissa read the letter. Having read
it onoe to herself sho next real it
aloud to bor sister :
Mesdatues : I felt myself uu ler a very
great obligation to you t lie other day at
Hlamlaiu. I am a very thla nviu, hue I was
swathed round with hundreds of yards of
linn Brussels lace, and I thought that Die
best way ot drawing the attuutlon of the
oustom-house oflljars from myself was to
draw It to you. It was purely In self-defence
that I directed the raid on your bon
nets. Having beeu the cause ot tho loss of
your lace, I wish to make you due compen
sation, aud I beg loava to s.'nd you some
iluer lace than that whloli you lost. I am,
obediently yours,
Yuuh Stout Fkli.ow-Tbavei.eb.
Melissa took poisession of a blnok
lace flounce aud Aunora of a dozen
vards of white lace aud a lnoe-edod
handkerchief, aud they quite forgave
the stout German for his cruelty and
for his stoutness. ---Strand Magazine.
Hardest Sneeze on lteoord.
Sneezing is all right in its way, but
should not be indulged iu too ardent
ly or painful consequences may ensue,
as illustrated in the case of a young
man of l'aterson, N. J., who sneezed
his shoulder out of joint. This is the
hardest sueeze on reoord. Detroit
v'ree Press.
ttlSE WORDS
An extremist is always a misfit.
Money is not the measure oi merit.
Love ia a natural product of human
ity. A woman has no use for dumb
Cupid.
Possession is pursuit with the pith
punched out )
Epigrams are diamonds id the gratel
of conversationi
There are people who can get drunk
from excitement.
People with nerve enough to lead
never lack followers.
Slyness is the only vice that does
not write itself npon the face.
The harder a woman's heart works
the less liable it is to go on strike.
Even a witticism has to depend
on appropriateness for appreciation.
It is seldom that a man's desires do
not keep a week or two in advance of
his income.
Neglect of trifles is more of an indi
cation of a weak character that a
strong ono.
"A good shape is in the sheers'
mouth" and a good fit is all in the
needle's eye.
No human being has a moral right
to dress out of harmony with the gen
eral sense of the community. ,
Women fall into errors from emo
tion, while men are more often moved
in the wrong direction by vanity.
A woman can do wrong twice as
quick as a man can, but it takes her a
hundred times as long to forgot it.
It is a mistake to endow a man with
imaginary capabilities. He knows no
more than is shown by his works.
If you wish to keep your friend you
must laugh at his jokes, but you are
not bound to hear his stories twice.
A suspicious man is occasionally
useful, but it is in the same sense that
boils are said to be conducive to
health.
One of the things that cut into one's
self-esteem is to find that a cherished
secret has been public property for
months.
Some people love each other for what
they think they are, and some people
love each other without thinking any
thing about it.
Make allowance for the follies of
youth aud hope for the best. The cat,
the gravest of all animals, is the most
frisky when young.
Four Curious Epitaphs.
"Arthur C." writeB to the New Yorlt
Press as follows : In a recent issue of
the Press I find several curious epitaphs.
Two of them I think your correspond
ent has changed a little or else re
ceived an imperfect copy of the orig
inals. The first, which is inscribed on
a tombstone in the Isle of Wight,
Bhould read :
To the memory of Martha Owynn, .
Who was so pure and clean within
She cracked the outer shell of skin
And hatched herself a cherubim.
The last one as presented by Mr
Harrison is more perfect in rhythm
than the original, which reads as fol
lows :
Boueath this sod, in hopes of heaven,
- Lies tho landlord of the Lion ;
His sou sticks to the business still,
Resigned unto bis father's will.
Having interested myself (in younger
days) in collecting curious examples
of churchyard poetry, I might add to
the list two of which perhaps the fol
lowing is the most peculiar :
Father and mother and I
Chose to be burled asunder ,
Father and mother lie buried here
And I He buried yonder.
A neighboring connty furnishes the
following epitaph, which proves the
"woman's rights movement" is not of
recent origin, but was in full force in
the rural districts of England even in
the early part of the last century ;
Hore lies the man ltlchard
And Mary, hi, wife,
Their surname was Pritchard
And they lived without strife j
But the reason was plain.
Tbey abounded In riches,
They no care had, nor pain,
And th, wife wore the breeches.
Would not our modern cemoterios
"Forests of Marble" be more interest
ing if there was a little more variety
in the legondswhioh tell of the virtues
of the dead, even though our obituary
poets should be compelled to gather a
little inspiration from their illustrious
predeoessors ?
The Oldest Human Habitation,
The most anoient architectural ruins
known are the temples at Ipsambul,
on the left bauk of tho Nile, in Nubia.
The largest of these temples has four
teen apartmeuts, the whole of which
has been hewn from solid rock. Some
idea of the immensity of these tem
ples may be gleaned from the fact
that one Binglo apartment of which
measurements were taken was found
to be fifty -seven feet long and fifty
two leet broad, the vaulted dome-like
root being thirty feet above the floor
and supported by two rows of massive
square pillars, four in a row, and each
ot the same material of which the
roof, side and floor of tho temple are
composed. To eaeh of the pillars is
attached a colossal figure of a man,
the feet being on the floor aud tho
head touching the roof. These hu
man figures are necessarilly of enor
mous proportions, and are each paint
ed in gaudy oolors. In front of this
wonderful rock-out temple are sealed
four still larger figures of human ba
iugs, two of which are sixty-live feet in
height, and are believod to represent
j Kamses the Great, whose remarkable
military exploits are to be found de
picted all over Northern Africa. He
productions of two of these colossal fig
ures on the gigantic scale of the orig
inal, also a facsimile of the temple
itself, on a small scale, were made ami
exhibited at the celebrated Crystal
Palace, Sydenham, England. St
Louis Republic,
CAROLINA'S SEA ISLANDS,
A PEOtTLIAR SECTION OT THE
SOUTH ATLANTIC COAST.
Numerous Mttle Inlands on Which
Many People Work In Various In
dustriesLast Var's Storm.
JlT LONG the southeastern At
f lantiC) from Kavanuah to
Charleston, and from Char1
d leston north to Georgetown)
the shore-line is tcry irregular( per'
haps more sd than elsewhere ori tho
Atlantid seaboard. Savannah; Beau
fort, and Charleston, while- seaport
cities with their large shipping inter
ests, are, in a sense, inland towns.
They are reached through rivers,
sounds, and bays, and tho open ocean
is seen only by glimpses if at all.
Theso rivers and sounds cut the South
Carolina coast into points, peninsulas,
and islands varying in sizpt outline,
and sometimes in general character ot
formation. If one looks at the coast
chart he will wonder how the pilots
ever learn the channels, and how, hav
ing once mapped them, it is possible
to follow the changes all tho time in
progress. The mainland runs into the
sea like the fingers on one's hand, and
the sea in its turn crosses the fingers
aud penetrates them like tho Veins.
The water is often fresh or salt accord
ing to the ebb or the flow of the tide,
and the rivers have two currents, ono
towards the ocean and the other
from it.
There are some ninety of these isl
ands, as they are recognized, but their
namber is doubled by heavy rains.
These islands are wooded with pines
and .oaks, and the sandy soil produces,
when fertilized and attentively cnlti
vated, abundant crops of cotton, rice,
corn, watermelons, and a variety of
vegetables. An industry which has
become profitable during the pait few
years is taking from the rich beds,
both on the land and in the rivers,
their stores of phosphate rock. This
business gives employment to thou
sands, as in the immediate vicinity of
Beaufort 160,000 tons of this rock are
taken out and washed preparatory to
treatment every year. The rice plan
tations claim much of the tillable soil,
and their product may be called ono
of the two leading staple3. The other
is cotton ; not tho common upland
kind of Georgia and Mississippi, but
the more sought-for Sea Island cotton.
During the seasou of 1891-2 tho crop
of the islands was 11,501 bales. The
past season yielded but about '2100
bales, showing the loss sustained iu
this one crop on account of the storm.
These products are meutionedto show
that the Sea Islanders iu fair timeiiare
able to support themselves.
The population of theso islands is
forty thousand or more, depending
somewhat on the seasou aud tho vigor
with whioh tho phosphate mines are
operated. Eighty-five per cent, of
these people are colored j the remain
ing fifteen per cent, include the plan
ters and their agents, the storekeep
ers, the owners of business plants, and
some scattered "crackers." As a
whole, this population of forty thou
sand is not well-to-do. It dwells iu
huts and cabins rather than in houses.
It lives contentedly on hominy and
baoon, with boiled rice for variety,
and sweet potatoes and chickens for
luxuries. The majority of tho blacks
do not lose sleep because their crops
are often mortgaged when they are
planted.
The awful tidal wavo of August 2,
1893, could hardly have found in the
United States a Bection whose topog
raphy was more inviting to its fury.
The surface of these isluuds is, for the
most part, a scant fivo feet abovo
tide-water. Almost everything but
the tops of the pines was submerged
by a wave which at its highest is said
to have reached fifteen feet. Cabins,
fences, bridges, boats and everything
not securely anchored were carried
out to sea ; the growing crops almost
ready for the harvest were washed out
of the ground or killed by the salt
water; desolation spread over the
islands.
Prompt measures were adopted for
relief, but the extent of the disaster
increased as the truth became kuowu.
At Charleston aud at Beaufort com
mittees were organized, aud contri
bution) came to them from tho
generous North, though business de
pression then shadowed tho country.
Much had been done, there was vastly
more to do, when ou the 14th of Sep
tember, Miss Clara Barton, President
of tho American National Bed Cross,
with assistants, arrived. .Miss Barton
came by tho united requests of tho
Governor of South Carolina aud the
two United States Senators. Accom
panied by Governor Tillman, Senator
Butler, State offioers and promiuent
citizens, an investigation was mnde.
This was thoroughly ami eou
cientiously done, even to tho taking
of a census of the destitute. The
islands were districted, distributing
oeutres located, trained nurses and
physiciitns and experienced helpers
were summoued. Very soon the Bed
Croai had an organization nearly per
fect, and was familiar with every part
of the islands. Delegations of suf
ferers called at first to preseut their
needs, aud later to state what they
cuuld get along without. The im
pression at the beginning was that the
Bed Cross is a second edition of tiio
old Feedmeu's Bureau, a distributing
agency. It required six weeks to ex
plain the charaeter ol the relie.' to be
given, to impress it upon the sullerers.
Harper's Weekly.
Truth About Hindoos.
Despite all the talk about the Hin
doos being so kind to dumb beahtx,
there were 7115 cases of cruelty to
auimuls iu Calcutta alouo I ant year.
The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals employs twenty
three ageuta, and collected iu lines
rupees. Denver Times.
SUEXTIFIC ASH INDUSTRIAL,
The skin of the cactus plant is air
light.
The apple has a larger proportion of
phosphorous than any other fruit.
There are no known means by which
the scars made by smallpox maybe re
moved. Giants fisnally have weak constitu
tions, and are shorter-lived than
dwarfs.
A Hungarian inventor claims to be
able to make from wood pulp a fabric
suitable for durable clothing.
A Frenchman has invented an elec
tric mosquito bar which electrocutes
insect pests which come in contact
with it.
A microscopic examination of hair
will determine with almost infallible
certainty to what kind of animal it
belonged.
Scientific men have demonstrated
that a speed of 200 miles an hour- can
never be attained by anything that
moves oh wheels.
" ElectTio pianos, which play them
selves, the keys being depressed as
though by some unseen hand, are now
being manufactured.
Plants are affected by various sub
stances, just as animals ar j ; electricity
will stimulate them, narcotics will
stupefy and kill them.
No. receptacle has ever been made
strong enough to resist the bursting
power of freezing water. Twenty
pound shells have been burst asunder
as though made of pottery.
An astronomer calculates that if the
dinmeter of the sun is daily diminished
by two feet, over 3000 years must
elapse ere the astronomical instruments
now in use could detect the diminu
tion. Italian grape culturists are now mak
ing illuminating oil from grape seeds,
from which they get aprodnctof from
ten to fifteen per cent. It is 3lear,
colorless and inordorous, and burns
without smoke.
The light from the sun reaohes the
earth in seven and one-half minutes,
though the distance is such that a cannon-ball
fired from the sun and con
tinuing its velocity unabated would
require more than seventeen years to
to reach the earth.
A horse can draw on metal rails one
and two-thirds times as much as on as
phalt pavement, three and one-third
times as much as on good Belgian
blocks, five times as much as on good
cobble-stone, twenty times as much as
oh good earth road, and forty times as
) much as on sand.
The migrating instinct is uncontrol
lable iu birds that have it at all. Geese
hatched from the eggs of the wild
variety, though they have had no op
portunity of learning, take wing in the
fall and fly off to the South; if their
w ings be clipped they will walk off as
fast and go as far as they can.
In a recent lecture, Sir Bobert Ball
said that a telegraphic message would
go seven times round the earth in a
second, and if a telegraphic message
could be sent to the moon it would
reach its destiuation in a little more
than a second. He also thought that
it would take something like eight
minutes to arrive at the sun.
More than three hundred species of
fish hitherto unknown to naturalists
are described by M. Leon Vaillant as
inhabiting the lakes of Borneo. Mauy
other fish are identical with species
living in the waters ot the Sunda
Islands and off Indo-Chiua. As these
species never reach the sea, they fur
nish another argument in favor of tho
theory of a former connection of these
countries.
The Snudvfieli Man.
The London sandwich men are a dis
tinct class peculiar to the great metro
polis. They are the peripatetis who
advertise the latest novelties in thea
tres or wardrobes, and they spend
their lives, so to speak, between the
boards. They are for the most part,
broken-down folk, who have lost other
employment through evil habits ; but
there are some of abetter class who
aro thoroughly respectable aud trust
worthy. They aro selected by bijl
postiug agencies, which make a busi
ness of supplying employers, aud the
applications aro always in excess of
the demand. A general election is al
ways a time of harvest to tho sandwich
men. In Loudon at a Parliamentary
election as many as a hundred of them
havo been employed by each candidate,
and an instance is mentioned by tho
Graphic where "each si lo sedulously
Bought to mako the sandwich mcu who
were proclaiming the virtues of tho
opposition candidate digracefully
drunk. Both sides succeeded, and
two hundred drunken saudwich men
were on exhibition that day in the con
stituency, to the amusement of the friv
olous an i the horror of the serious
minded among the lieges." The pay
nu election days is doubled, aud hence
if four hundred men are required at
least eight hundred can be had. A
nobleman, a member of an old British
family, recently won a wager by pa
rading Picadilly as a sandwich mail,
dressed iu a shabby coat aiM buttered
hat. 1'rauk Lolio's Weeklv.
A Man Midi a Double Heart.
Wheu tho Mercer County (N'ew
Jersey) Medical Association was iu
session a few years ago a colored man
named William King came before
1 liein for examination. He claimed
to havo two hearts, but a careful ex
smiualiou revealed the tact that his
heart nits double instead of being two
separate blood-piii.iping orgaui. Be
sides having two distinct pulsations,
which could easily bo felt, he had
wonderful control over his double
life engine, beiug able to stop its
beating for sixty seconds without in
convenience. St. Louis llepublio,
AT PLAY".
Tiny that yon are mother desr
And piny that papa Is your bean j
Tiny that we sit in the corner here,
Just as we jised ti, long ago,
riaylag to, we lovers two,
Are just as hnppy as we can be.
And I'll say 'l lova you" to you
And you say "I loveyotl"tr mnl
"I love yon" we both shall say,
All In earnest anil all In play.
Or. play that you nre the other on
That some time came, and went away ;
And play that the light of years agona
Stole Into my heart again to-day !
Playing that you are the on I knew
In the days that never again may be,
I'll say "I love yon" to you
And you say "I love you' to me I
"I love you 1 ' my heart shall say
To the ghost of tho past come back to-day I
Or, play that you sought this nestling plaee
For your own sweet solf, with that dual
guise
Of your pretty mother in your fnce
And the look of that other In yonr eyesl
Bo the dear old loves shall live anew
As I hold my darling on my knee,
And I'll say "I love you" to you
And you say "I love you" to me!
Oh, many a strange true thing we say
And do when w pretend to play !
Chicago Record
HUM0K OF THE DAT.
A game bird The shuttlecock.
Truth.
It may also be said that homeliness
is only skin deep. Puck.
The man who plaa football, only
has a-fighting chance for his life.
The man who lost his temper wasn't
proud of tho article when he found it.
Some men aro in the hands of a law
yer or doctor all the time. Atchison
Olobe.
tho results of some one else's genius,, free 0f
Puck. assertion.
The greatest organ in the wnd H
with no stops woman's voice. I
ell Courier. hai.tb.
Whenever a man make. . goc -u cu,
he begins to talk about his K-Iands, Chilblains,
ment. Puck. eruptions, and posi-
A hint to the wise j. ,-r no pay required. It
a nint to tue wise is nriBPt utiin,.ti.,n
-vided the wise are digued. Prico 'ia eenta ner
Galveston News, t bv Slggins Nn-mi.
When a man is
should not place rr
his companion. '
Usually when
to burn she is t'" "cr' we ner V""OT
body. Galvesto" chlld' "he cried tae CMtorU
It is a mighty me Mu"- clun C"torU"
to have his 8chochudren-'he,eUiemCa,,orU-
parents Boston
One of the great
is found in countin;""-- mm.
about to make. GaARRD.
He madly loved a las-
wno was to mm aveSON -At Krewsburp,
Because there was a la ,. . . w
Of money In his purse 1894. by M- Frew,
Kansas Clones and Miss Lena
There is ranch teudern Nebraska, Pa.
seemingly cruel world but DTTERER On Ju
rsrely finds it. Cleveland IVown, N. Y., by
er. , Frederick L.
Pathos sometimes is very ne'.lle, and Miss
humor; and some people's humcflun, Forest
very near topathos. Somerville Jour
nal. " ...
To learn to play the trombone it is
necessary to have good lungs and
indulgent neighbors. Philadelphia
Becord.
A great many persons have been
kept from making their mark in this
world by copy books. Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Muriel "And how are you getting
on with that Boston girl i" Jack
"Swimmingly. I've succeeded in
breaking the ice." Harlem Life.
Lover "I assure you, Herr Meyer,
I cannot live without your daughter."
Herr Meyer "Oh, you overestimate
my income." Fliegende Blaetter.
Hor brow was like the snowdrift,
Her throat was like the swan
When she'd bought complexion powders
And strewed them thickly on.
Chicago Tribune.
She "I believe the affection you
professed for mo was all put on." He
".Same as your complexion was in
those days, eh?" Indianapolis Jour
nal. "Little boy, doesn't it pain you to
see an elderiy woman hanging ou to a
strap?" Boy (keeping his seat)
"No'm, less it's my ma." Boston
Journal.
When a woman puts on a nice apron
around the house to save her dress,
she puts on another apron on top of
that to save tho nice apron. Atchi
son Globe.
Hose "Harry has such a cheerful
disposition. Ho never borrows trou
ble." Daisy "I have been told
he makes an exception of that."
Harlem Life.
He "They are not on speaking
terms, jou know." She "Why, they
are dead iu love with each other."
He "For that reason they don't
speak ; fiey , a sit and gaze at each
other." Phik.lulphia Call.
Mabel "Papa is getting anxious
about your calls. Yesterday he want
ed to know who you were." Adorer
"Urn - I say, Mabel, if he mentions
the subject again tell him you heard
lue grumbling about high taxes."
New York Weekly.
".Mary Jane," said the rector sol
emnly, "the steak is cooked to a crisp
and the potatoes are raw. You have
left undone the things that ouc,ht to
be done, and cooked too done the
things that ought not to bo done."
Indianapolis Journal.
Sunday Morning: Wife "Come,
John, why don't you get up? Your
breakfast was ready an hour ago, and
it's spoiled by this time." Husband
"Is it? Very well; then I don't
want it. Call me iu season for din
ner." Boston Transcript.
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